That time I helped my buddy set up his saltwater tank...

in #photography7 years ago

You know that one friend that asks for help and you know it will always be different from what they asked, but you love em anyway and just say "LET'S DO IT!"?

On a crazy hot summer day in sunny Southern California my buddy called me up to help him 'move a fishtank in his house'. Translation: we take both of his SUVs to go all across LA and SD to pick up tanks, water, salt, fish, coral, and anything and everything.

Enough with all the gibber-gabber let's get to the photos! My apologies I did not really bring a nice camera as I did not know we would be doing all this hahaha

Tank after we brought it back. Might look light but it actually weighed I think nearly 300 pounds. Took three guys to move it:
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Once it is all set up:
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Various pics of coral and anemones:
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Pretty neat sea urchin. Turns out the eye thing in the middle is the urchin's anus. Learn somethin' new everyday huh? I definitely did lol
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Green grass like anemone:
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Closer:
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I believe these are rose tip bubble anemones:
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Better view:
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Maybe different species rose tip? Anyone know what it might be?
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I did get a free lunch out of it and got to learn how to set up a saltwater coral tank so it was all worth it!